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Drepaxanax. ^en. n. 



Genus simile ' Drepanornis ' dicto, sed chlamyde laterali 

 prfepectorali diversa et fasciis pectoralibus abseiitibus 

 distingueudum. 



Typus : D. Iruijni (Oust.). 



EucoRAX^ gen. n. 



Genus simile generi ' Manucodia'' dicto^ sed pilei plumis 

 lateraiibus recurvatis et rectricibus medianis recurvati 

 distiuguendum. 



Typus : E. contrli (Sclater). 



Xaxthochlamys, geu. u. 



Genus simile generi ' ^-i»2W?/or/i!/.S' ' dicto^ sed crista maxima 



ornata distingueudum. 

 Typus : X. suhalaris (Sliarpe) . 



Mr. OsBERT SalyiNj F.Pt.S.^ sent some pliotograiilis of a 

 specimen of an Albatros in the Peterhead. -Museum^ which 

 had been forwarded to him by Mr. J. A. Harvie-Brown. 

 Mr. Salvin identified the species as Dlomedta culminata. 



The Chairman exhibited a shin o£ Faico punicus, which 

 had been captured at sea in the Mediterranean^ south of 

 Crete, in June last, by INlr. Arthur Sclater_, on his passage 

 Ijome from Ceylon^ aud brought alive to England.. 



Mr. Sclater called attention to the recently published 

 work on the birds of the Balkan States^, Bulgaria, Eastern 

 Ptcuraelia, and the Dobrudscha {' ]Materialen zu einer Ornis 

 Balkanica^), by Othmar Preiser, Custos of the Landes-Mu- 

 seum in Sarajevo, which contained a mass of iuformatiou on 

 the ornitliology of one of the least-known portions ofEuroj^e, 

 and would be of special interest to students of the Palee- 

 arctic Ornis. Mr. Sclater had just received a letter from the 

 author/ who stated that he had foimd. the Snow- Finch 

 [Montifringilla nivalis) nesting on some of the highest 

 mountains in Greece (Riona, 2500 metres, and the Koras). 



